The ‘Fast Runner’ Trilogy, Inuit Cultural Memory, and Knowledge (Re-)Production

• Published in: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
• Main Author: Kilbourn, Russell J.A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2020
• Subjects: Literature and Literary Theory; Linguistics and Language; Language and Linguistics; Rasmussen; inuit
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2020-0019; https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/zaa/68/2/article-p191.xml; https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/zaa-2020-0019/xml; https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/zaa-2020-0019/pdf

Abstract This paper reads the Isuma ‘Fast Runner’ trilogy – Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner (2001), The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006), Before Tomorrow (2008) – as contemporary digital video instantiations of Inuit cultural memory and knowledge (re-)production; as fixed audiovisual texts ironically d...